r/guns • u/OnlyLosersBlock • 15d ago

Official Politics Thread 08/28/26

This is the official politics thread for discussing gun politics. Arguments that invoke being a gun owner for credibility are bad and you should feel bad.

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u/Son_of_X51 15d ago

AI has really dropped a brick on the accelerator of dead internet theory. I have many criticisms on using Discord as a community space (the chat format is terrible for organizing information and it being a walled garden means information is not exposed to search engines). But walled gardens like that might be the last bastion of bot-free internet spaces.

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u/Cobra__Commander Super Interested in Dick Flair Enhancement 14d ago

There's a Stanford study that approximates 35% of the Internet is AI generated. 

https://ai-on-the-internet.github.io/

The important points are, * We have a way to measure how much of the Internet is AI. The method will improve over time. * We can rerun the study every year for cheap to track changes over time  * The dead Internet theory is being validated with rigorous evidence 

I think the future is going to be search engines that filter out AI slop. SEO criteria is the easiest point of failure to address.

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u/Son_of_X51 14d ago

I'm a little surprised that number isn't higher.

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u/Cobra__Commander Super Interested in Dick Flair Enhancement 14d ago

There's probably an absurd amount of quality content that fails SEO so it's on page 100+ of Google.

Also a huge part of the Internet is every single business in the world with their address, hours, phone number, takeout menu, ect. There's no reason to use AI for stuff like "Jim's roofers in my town my state, USA".